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''Geiger'' means "violin player."

People with this surname

Abraham Geiger Abraham Geiger (Hebrew: ''ʼAvrāhām Gayger''; 24 May 181023 October 1874) was a German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism. Emphasizing Judaism's constant development along history and universalist traits, Geig ...

(1810–1874), German reform rabbi *

Arno Geiger Arno Geiger (born 22 July 1968) is an Austrian novelist. Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as ...

(born 1968), Austrian writer * Dennis Geiger (disambiguation), many people ** Dennis Geiger (born 1998), German footballer ** Dennis Geiger (born 1984), German footballer * Emily Geiger (born about 1760), legendary heroine of the American Revolutionary War *

Gary Geiger Gary Merle Geiger (April 4, 1937 – April 24, 1996) was a major league outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, and Houston Astros from (1958-1970). He was born in Sand Ridge, Illinois. His offseason home while a maj ...

(1937–1996), Major League Baseball player *

H. Jack Geiger Herman J. Geiger (November 11, 1925 – December 28, 2020), known as H. Jack Geiger, was an American physician and civil rights activist. He was a leader in the field of social medicine, the philosophy that doctors had a responsibility to treat ...

(1925–2020), American physician and civil rights activist *

Hans Geiger Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (; ; 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discover ...

(1882–1945), inventor of the Geiger counter and son of Wilhelm Geiger *

Harold Geiger Major Harold Geiger (October 7, 1884 – May 17, 1927) was US military aviator number 6, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. He was also a balloonist. Spokane International Airport is designated with the International Air Transport Ass ...

(1884–1927) pioneer in Army aviation and ballooning * Hermann Geiger (1914–1966), Swiss pilot * Jacob Casson Geiger (1885–1981), American public health physician * Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805–1880), Viennese court painter * John Geiger (disambiguation) *

Kaylon Geiger Kaylon Trevell Geiger Sr. (born November 1, 1997) is an American football wide receiver. He played college football at Navarro, Troy, and Texas Tech and was signed by the Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in . Early life and education Geiger ...

(born 1997), American football player *

Ludwig Geiger Ludwig Geiger (born ''Lazarus Abraham Geiger'', also called ''Ludwig Moritz Philipp Geiger''; 5 June 1848 – 9 February 1919) was a German author and historian. Life Ludwig Geiger was born at Breslau, Silesia, a son of Abraham Geiger. After st ...

(1848–1919), German literary historian *

Lazarus Geiger Lazarus Geiger (21 May 1829 – 29 August 1870) was a German-Jewish philosopher and philologist. Life He was born at Frankfurt-on-Main, was destined to commerce, but soon gave himself up to scholarship and studied at Marburg, Bonn and Heidelberg. ...

(1829–1870), German philologist and philosopher * , (1783–1809), German artist *

Mark Geiger Mark William Geiger (born August 25, 1974) is an American sports administrator and former soccer referee. He is the senior director of match officials at the Professional Referee Organization (PRO), which oversees domestic referees in Major Lea ...

(born 1974), American football referee *

Matt Geiger Matthew Allen Geiger (born September 10, 1969) is an American former professional National Basketball Association player who played at the center position. Collegiate career Geiger played for Countryside High School in Clearwater, Florida and wa ...

(born 1969), American basketball player *

Michael Geiger Michael Geiger (born 27 September 1960) is a former German footballer and current manager. As a player, he spent five seasons in the Bundesliga with Eintracht Braunschweig, as well as three seasons in the 2. Bundesliga with Braunschweig and VfL Wo ...

(born 1960), German association football player * Nick Geiger, (born 1952) Australian rugby league footballer *

Nikolaus Geiger Nikolaus Geiger (6 December 1849 – 27 November 1897) was a German sculptor and painter. Life Born at Lauingen in the Kingdom of Bavaria, he began an apprenticeship as a stonemason. At the age of 16, he went to Munich, to study with Joseph Kna ...

(1849–1897), German sculptor and painter *

Philipp Lorenz Geiger Philipp Lorenz Geiger (29 August 1785 in Freinsheim – 19 January 1836 in Heidelberg) was a German pharmacist and chemist known for his work with plant alkaloids. From the age of 14 he worked as an apprentice pharmacist in Adelsheim, followe ...

(1785–1836), German botanist, chemist and pharmacist *

Reinold Geiger Reinold Geiger (born July 1947) is an Austrian billionaire, and the chairman and CEO of French cosmetics retailer L'Occitane en Provence. Education He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolo ...

(born 1947), Austrian businessman *

Roy Geiger General Roy Stanley Geiger (January 25, 1885 – January 23, 1947) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served in World War I and World War II. In World War II, he became the first Marine Corps general to lead a field army. Geig ...

(1885–1947), United States Marine Corps general *

Rudolf Geiger Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams Geiger (; ; 24 August 1894 – 22 January 1981) was a German meteorologist and climatologist. He was the son of Indologist Wilhelm Geiger and the brother of physicist Hans Geiger. He worked with Wladimir Köppen on cl ...

(1894–1981), German meteorologist and climatologist *

Teddy Geiger Teresa Geiger (born September 16, 1988) also known by her stage name Teddy Geiger, is an American artist, songwriter and record producer. Early life Geiger was born on September 16, 1988, to Lorilyn Rizzo-Bridges and John Theodore Geiger, I. Sh ...

(born 1988), American singer and guitarist *

Theodor Geiger Theodor Julius Geiger (9 November 1891 in Munich, Germany - 16 June 1952) was a German socialist, lawyer and sociologist who studied Sociology of Law, social stratification and social mobility, methodology, and intelligentsia, among other thin ...

(1891–1952), German sociologist *

Wilhelm Geiger Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger (; ; 21 July 1856 – 2 September 1943) was a German Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages and the history of Iran and Sri Lanka. He was known as a specialist in Pali, Sinhala language and the Dhivehi language ...

(1856–1943), German Orientalist and father of Hans Geiger

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